Rosario Marin

Rosario Marin (4 April 1958-) was Treasurer of the United States from 16 August 2001 to 30 June 2003, succeeding Mary Ellen Withrow and preceding Anna Escobedo Cabral.

Biography
Rosario Marin was born in Mexico City, Mexico on 4 April 1958, and the family emigrated to the United States in 1972. The family settled in Huntington Park, California, and Marin graduated from California State University in Los Angeles in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She worked as vice president of a Beverly Hills bank before becoming an advocate for the mentally ill due to her son's diagnosis with Down Syndrome. From 1999 to 2000, she served as Mayor of Huntington Park as a Republican Party member, and President George W. Bush made her Treasurer in 2001; she served until 2003. In 2003, she resigned from her post so that she could run against Barbara Boxer in the US Senate election in California, but she was defeated.